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arXiv · 1804.05137

Constructions of Augmented Orthogonal Arrays

Abstract

Augmented orthogonal arrays (AOAs) were introduced by Stinson, who showed the equivalence between ideal ramp schemes and augmented orthogonal arrays (Discrete Math. 341 (2018), 299-307). In this paper, we show that there is an AOA$(s,t,k,v)$ if and only if there is an OA$(t,k,v)$ which can be partitioned into $v^{t-s}$ subarrays, each being an OA$(s,k,v)$, and that there is a linear AOA$(s,t,k,q)$ if and only if there is a linear maximum distance separable (MDS) code of length $k$ and dimension $t$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$ which contains a linear MDS subcode of length $k$ and dimension $s$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$. Some constructions for AOAs and some new infinite classes of AOAs are also given.

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Xin Wang, Lijun Ji, Yun Li, Miao Liang. 2018-07-02. Constructions of Augmented Orthogonal Arrays. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05137

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